Lord Mhoram

Yeah, that's not a fair assessment of the situation.  Even if Trump had won the popular as well, it would have been by such a narrow margin that you can't blame this on the entirety of the U.S. voting population.  We were given the choice between an establishment candidate and someone who gave the appearance of an outsider (even if a buffoonish one).  He was so much the outsider that significant leaders in his own party refused to support him.  You can't buy a better outsider image than that.  So, while this result didn't seem likely, it's easily understandable.

That's why we need to make sure that the Democratic Party leadership doesn't get away with trying to spin the narrative that low voter turnout and 'millennial apathy' was why they lost.  They lost because they didn't give people a valid alternative choice.  The mood in this country has been that we're sick of establishment candidates, so running one was a terrible idea.

Jeez. Again, people really need to take a chill pill. One election does not equate to the end of the freaking world! 
 
And since we are all about issues of voter suppression through intimidation: imagine what it is like to be a Republican leaning person in Oregon now. Everyone needs to come together and condemn this mayhem. Not because of some idiotic notion that Secretary Clinton, President Elect Trump, President Obama, nor most media elites are responsible for its creation, but because we are ALL responsible for the smooth transition of power.
 
Soar.  

Yeah. - Post election has been much worse than pre election.,
 
I've ended up blocking some posters, not because I don't like them anymore, but I am trying to block all politics on facebook. I have politically passionate friends. I had a nice private conversation with them about it.
Pariah - our Mutual Gothic friend was one.

Well, none of us wants to get Banned or Moderated, so there's that.
 
But yeah, I find the folks here are pretty okay.
 
(I'm currently on a two-week hiatus from Facebook, myself. I've heard enough from others to know that I don't need to be there right now.)

Oh, were New Yorkers threatening to secede as well? I must have missed that.
 
And I don't actually hate California.  I'm not a big fan of the Raiders, and my ex is from the San Fernando valley, but in general, I think California is okay.

What we need is for those that don't support Trump to understand why so many people felt so disenfranchised and ignored by the "media elite" and policy makers that they elected someone with so many personality flaws to the presidency. If that communication can happen we can get actual growth - not just name calling of supporters from one side or the other. Much of middle/lower class America has felt ignored, mocked and brushed off that they finally said 'Enough is enough"
 
Think about jokes made at the expense of "white trash" or rural Americans, (people who work hard all their lives only to see jobs going overseas and health care costs rising) - the jokes made at thier expense by comedian of the stripe of Bill Maher ... if those jokes were made about any other group (Minorities, Islam, women) the person would be off the air and careers destroyed. It makes sense that the butt of those jokes decided to make a statement about change, even supporting someone they may find personally distasteful.
 
Personally I don't like Trump, but I can completely understand why he was elected. I'm hoping the shock of Hilary's defeat will make the liberal elite actually try and figure out why and communicate with them - and build a better future that includes them; instead of mocking and ignoring them as has been done by Washington insiders for decades.

What we need is for those that don't support Trump to understand why so many people felt so disenfranchised and ignored by the "media elite" and policy makers that they elected someone with so many personality flaws to the presidency. If that communication can happen we can get actual growth - not just name calling of supporters from one side or the other. Much of middle/lower class America has felt ignored, mocked and brushed off that they finally said 'Enough is enough"
 
Think about jokes made at the expense of "white trash" or rural Americans, (people who work hard all their lives only to see jobs going overseas and health care costs rising) - the jokes made at thier expense by comedian of the stripe of Bill Maher ... if those jokes were made about any other group (Minorities, Islam, women) the person would be off the air and careers destroyed. It makes sense that the butt of those jokes decided to make a statement about change, even supporting someone they may find personally distasteful.
 
Personally I don't like Trump, but I can completely understand why he was elected. I'm hoping the shock of Hilary's defeat will make the liberal elite actually try and figure out why and communicate with them - and build a better future that includes them; instead of mocking and ignoring them as has been done by Washington insiders for decades.

For those who lament the Two-Party System, you should rejoice in a Trump election, in part at least.  Trump was able to win election in defiance of all conventional wisdom with less money spent than any winning candidate since I've been alive.
 
This is great for those who hold out for Libertarians, Greens, Constitutionalists, and other 3rd parties.  It shows, conclusively, that it can be done.  You just need the right candidate and the right time and an exceedingly active social media account.  I'm serious.  The thing that gives me most hope about this election is the opportunity for the Internet to actually level the playing field against big donor interests.  On the Internet, you can put forth detailed, and therefore complicated and long, proposals.  People could, if they chose, decide on a candidate on the basis of actual policies rather than the sound bites.  I mean honestly what reasonable person thinks 90 seconds is a reasonable amount of time to layout a plan for resolving any significant national issue?
 
I hate what comes out of Donald Trump's mouth.  I think his personal life is a mess, but his actions are actually pretty good.  He's turned around a lot of bankrupt business and turned them into profitable job creating tax paying enterprises.  He has always paid for talent and provided both superior pay and benefits.  He even has a solid history of promoting women and minorities in his various business concerns.  What he'll do as President, we'll have to see, but the old saw I live by is if you want to predict what people will do, look at what they've done;  not what they've said.
 
In any event, it's a blow against the political aristocracy and the political dynasties and that, in and of itself, is a good thing.  A Trump presidency might still be a apocalyptic disaster or he might be a modern day Cincinnatus who restores the Republic.  Time will tell.

Personally, I am quite tired of being equated with being a racist by virtue of being a white Conservative. I also realize that this election is very painful for our friends, yes friends, on the Left side of the aisle. All of the polls strongly indicated that Hillary Clinton would win and there was a palpable expectation of such. I even felt that was going to be the case. It was quite shocking when the exact opposite of my previous prediction* came true. If it were shocking to me, I can only imagine how utterly devastating it was for those that just "knew" that their chosen candidate was going to be president. Expressing that pain and concern is only natural. I think a little compassion and commiseration is not beyond my ability. Besides, I hate Trump almost as much as Clinton. In a bar graph, you would really have to zoom in very close to see the difference. I didn't vote for him and, being in California, it wouldn't matter if I did. California is a foregone conclusion for the Democrat side.
 
The only "win" I see (for me) is that Hillary Clinton will not get to appoint pro-Gun Control justice(s) to the Supreme Court. That was my biggest concern. Now I have a lot more concerns aside from that but I am willing to give it a chance to see how Trump is going to run the country. Who knows, he might surprise me. 
 
 
* I predicted that Hillary Clinton would take the Electoral, while Trump would take the Popular. 

This isn't true. At least, it wasn't true for me. The main reason I voted for Bush was that there was no reason to vote for John Kerry.  His entire platform (if that's even the right word) was "Elect me because I'm not George W. Bush". And it failed--much like Hillary Clinton's non-platform of "Elect me because I'm not Donald Trump" failed last night.  (Admittedly, Hillary makes the stronger case.)
 
Blaming fear and hatred for Kerry's loss in 2004 is a nice excuse a decade after the fact, but it's not true.  I didn't vote for Bush out of fear, or out of hatred of Middle Easterners. I voted for Bush because I didn't see Kerry as a viable option.

I have to respectfully disagree over the inclusion of the X-Men and their fellow mutants in the MCU. Even in the Marvel Comics universe, mutants co-exist uncomfortably with superhumans having other origins. For some reason mutants are hated and feared by a large segment of the population, while other supers may be respected and lauded. The issues they deal with seem like an entirely different continuity from the rest of the Marvel Universe. IMHO they work much better in their own separate cinematic world, with mutation being the only source of super powers, rather than being squeezed in with all the mutates, aliens, and gods.

In one version of the story, the same accident that made him lose his hair also destroyed the artificial, possibly intelligent, amorphous life form that Luthor had just created in his lab.  He became convinced that Superboy had deliberately destroyed it out of jealousy about his scientific achievements.
 

 
The picture I found online of the aftermath of its destruction is a different art style than the picture I posted, so its destruction in the accident is most likely a retcon.  Everything else shows him upset over the accident destroying the irreplaceable Kryptonite antidote he had created using the life form.

Which is what I said: Not anyone would react the same way. Tony, who has been shown to a) be emotionally unstable and b>  to be under growing levels of stress, would. Because they've developed his character that way. It's within genre tropes, sure. I was only responding to the assertion that anyone would react the same way.

Yo mama so mean, she has no standard deviation!

A point I forgot to bring up, re: MoS
 
The only reason we see the two scenes most suitably called 'angsty', and the content of them:
 
Memory:  Him as a schoolboy freaking out because of his x-ray vision suddenly kicking in
Reason: He, as a man, is not dwelling on the angst at all, he is thinking of his mother's influence, as she ends up talking him through it
 
Memory: Him, as a teenager, having an argument because he wants to help people with his powers, not run the farm, which is his father's way of keeping him from revealing himself.
Reason: This is actually a scene done to avoid exposition. He is relating it to Lois, explaining that his father did not want him saving him because his father did not feel he should reveal himself. Again, not dwelling on the angst of that argument, but the memory of his father to explain to Lois why he doesn't want her to reveal his existence.
 
There is another memory about the bus, which, again, is him remembering his parents. And a memory about some bullies, which again, ends with it being really about his father.
 
In each, the memory does not end in angst, but in teaching from his parents. 'Learned morality from the Kents', but done as actual story telling, not stock exposition.
 
In essence, most of the first half of the movie is him saving people while remembering what his parents taught him. If he had simply ended the movie by getting Zod in the Phantom Zone and then destroying the Phantom Zone, thus killing Zod, this would probably be the most faithful canon representation of post-depression Superman ever put on film, with far more time put into showing, instead of telling, why he was good than in other movies.(Gonna skip over the collateral damage thing, because all of these movies have it, all of them deal with it the same way, and that way is equally annoying in all of them, Marvel or DC)
 
To be honest, the movies' 'present', the period that is actually occurring and is not flashback, has zero angsty or brooding Superman scenes. And that is most of the movie. And the context of the scenes with brooding had everything to do with how the Kents got him out of that state and shaped him, and nothing to do with 'let's make him brooding, the girls in the audience will love pouting petulant Kal El', he was mostly a grade schooler during the scenes that description might apply to.
 
Now, doing it all in flashback, not sure what I think of that. However, given how Captain America was viewed by many as too slow(whereas I strongly suspect that, over time, it will hold up better than the second movie), I'm not surprised that they didn't simply do a chronological telling.
 
The codex thing, I cannot find a good reason for. At all.

I think the whole first episode will be the crew desperately trying to escape from that Klingon ship that's right on their tails.

...and we thought the Summers-Grey family was screwed up.

Q: What is a wok?
 
 
 

You missed the bit about the Sadducee asking how any of this aligns to the approved state core curriculum.
 
The rest of it is 100% true, though.

A Lesson
 
Jesus took his disciples up the mountain and, gathering them around him, He taught them saying:
 
Blessed are the poor in spirit.
 
Blessed are those who mourn.
 
Blessed are the meek.
 
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness.
 
Blessed are the merciful.
 
Blessed are the pure in heart.
 
Blessed are the peacemakers.
 
Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake.
 
Blessed are you when men revile you on my account.
 
Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven.
 
Then Simon Peter said, "Are we supposed to know this?"
 
And Andrew said, "Do we have to write this down?"
 
And James said, "I don't have any paper."
 
And Phillip said, "Will we have a test on this?"
 
And Bartholomew said, "Do we have to turn this in?"
 
And John said, "The other disciples didn't have to learn this."
 
And Matthew said, "May I go to the bathroom?"
 
And Judas said, "What does this have to do with real life?"
 
And Jesus wept.
 
Then one of the Pharisees who was present asked for Jesus' lesson plan and inquired of Jesus, "Where are your anticipatory set of goals and objectives in the cognitive domain?"
 
Author unknown, but certainly a teacher

As a Legion fan the words "Science Police" made me grin.

Right.  That's the job of the comic editors and writers.

"XLIV? Then why didn't you just say XLIV? Who can remember 44?"

Fozzie Bear
 
Wait, that's Wakka Wakka Kandan